[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 72, Issue 25
Brandt Gibson
ironhide781 at hotmail.com
Wed May 13 09:38:15 PDT 2009
As far as backing up your data goes, I've found it helpful to have several backups. I keep one file on my main genealogy computer, a copy on my laptop, another on my flash drive, and a final one on a genealogy website (I use TribalPages.com). I also have some DVD-RWs that I update usually once every couple months, where I'll backup everything I have and then write the date on the DVD so I know when my last backup was. It sounds overly redundant, but at least I know if a fire or earthquake happens, unless it wipes out my home, all of my belongings and the entire internet, I'm still ok.
Brandt
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:42:11 -0700
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Question: Buying EWZ films
Hello all: This is going to sound like a dumb question but if you've bought microfilm from the EWZ collection ... how do you view and print from it? Do you need to go to a microfilm reader? Or is there some trick to doing this on the computer?
Thanks,
Edie Adam
Fairfax, Virginia USA
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Hello Edie:
I would guess you could go to a Family History Center and use their
equipment.
Nelson
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Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Question: Buying EWZ films
Hello all: This is going to sound like a dumb question but if you've bought
microfilm from the EWZ collection ... how do you view and print from it? Do
you need to go to a microfilm reader? Or is there some trick to doing this
on the computer?
Thanks,
Edie Adam
Fairfax, Virginia USA
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 18:59:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Question: Buying EWZ films
Hi Edie,
Besides going to the Family History Center, you could ask your local
public library about using your own film in their readers. I checked
with our public library and they said there would be no problem with
that. Also, some libraries and Family History Centers have a special
scanner that reads microfilm and converts it to a digital image. Using
such a converter would allow you to save the images to a flashdrive and
then you could view them on your computer and print them that way.
Otherwise, many microfilm readers have printers attached to them.
Sigrid Pohl Perry
E. Adam wrote:
> Hello all: This is going to sound like a dumb question but if you've bought microfilm from the EWZ collection ... how do you view and print from it? Do you need to go to a microfilm reader? Or is there some trick to doing this on the computer?
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> Thanks,
> Edie Adam
> Fairfax, Virginia USA
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:14:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Question: Buying EWZ films
I've bought about 150 of them over the years. Yes, you need to use a microfilm machine. I have tried scanning the image into my computer but it is a real pain.
Beyond that, though, the entire series of films is at College Park, not far from you!
Dave Obee
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Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Question: Buying EWZ films
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>
> Hello all: This is going to sound like a dumb question but if
> you've bought microfilm from the EWZ collection ... how do you
> view and print from it? Do you need to go to a microfilm reader?
> Or is there some trick to doing this on the computer?
>
> Thanks,
> Edie Adam
> Fairfax, Virginia USA
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>
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From: farose at gmail.com
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:50:36 -0700
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Sort of OT - corrupted file of genealogical material
I'm just devastated - the file in my genealogy program that held over 8000
names (I record siblings and spouses of siblings, etc., as well) is
corrupted, and I cannot access it. Last night I tried to do a merge, and the
program froze. So I had to shut down the computer - and when I tried to
access it this morning, I got the following error message:
Error opening database.
Unrecognized database format 'C:\(genealogy program)\Data\My Tree2.fdb'.
I'm very carefuly to back-up every time I finish with the program, but of
course couldn't do it last night. I've tried accessing the file directly,
and still get the same error message. I'm not terribly computer literate, so
I tried the old standby - re-booting, and no change.
I have an old file that still works, but there is easily more than a hundred
hours of research and data-input that is not in the old one, but is in the
one I can't access.
Any advice gratefully received - (privately or here) as well as advice on
what to do so that this doesn't happen again. I can't afford to lost that
much information. Help!
Rose-Marie
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 18:23:30 -0700
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] sort of OT corrupted file - now fixed
Sorry to bother you all again, but it seems I've been able to fix the
problem - there is fortunately a "restore" function in the program, and I've
been able to restore the file. Looks to be ok.
Again, sorry!
Rose-Marie
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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 18:59:24 -0700
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] sort of OT corrupted file - now fixed
Rose-Marie,
Sounds like you are using Legacy, so if you do regular backups, you can
always do a restore from any of the backups you have. You of course do
a backup at least daily, right?
Gary
F&RM Haddad wrote:
> Sorry to bother you all again, but it seems I've been able to fix the
> problem - there is fortunately a "restore" function in the program, and I've
> been able to restore the file. Looks to be ok.
>
> Again, sorry!
>
> Rose-Marie
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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:29:12 -0700
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] storing genealogical information
I'm the one who had the near-miss with a corrupted database file that my
program (yes, Legacy) had the ability to restore. And thank-you everyone for
your suggestions and good wishes. This has made me wonder how everyone
stores their genealogical info. Just on a dedicated genealogy program? Also
in, a spreadsheet program? And/Or also in a Word Processing Program in
Ahnen-tafel format? What about "hard copy"? I gave my maternal line data in
chart form to a cousin as a b-day gift, and it was over 120 pages, 5
generations per page. Many pages had only one or two names on them of
course, but even so. Since then I've been able to add more material, and it
would be signficantly bigger now.
So in your opinion, what is the best way (what are the best ways) to store
your information?
And while on the topic - how do you transfer the information in electronic
format to someone (say, overseas) who does not have a genealogical program
on their computer, and may not have Microsoft Word? And I don't have Adobe
except as a reader.
Rose-Marie
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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:16:37 -0700
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] storing genealogical information
Rose-Marie,
Legacy not only has the ability to restore a backup, but it has a file
maintenance routine that will mostly, but not always, recover your file
from a crash.
Storing your data is not just making a backup of your data. What
happens if the computer dies, or you have a fire. You should always
have your data not only backed up on your computer, but also on a flash
drive that is always with you, or always somewhere that it there was a
fire, you would not lose it- like at your office. You might also
consider sending a copy of your data on a regular basis to one of your
children and tell them to keep it safe, even if they are not interested
in genealogy- tell them if they lose that file, you may cut them off
from any inheritance!
You really do not need to print out your data on paper, because as soon
as you print it, it will be out of date, assuming that you are actively
updating your database. That does not mean that you should not print
out a pedigree or share family group sheets with members of your family,
but putting it all in a book does not really do much for anyone,
especially since finding a particular family group sheet among several
thousand others can be a daunting task if you do not find it instead on
your computer. I am not saying that you might not want to print out
all of your data if you are sharing a printed book with family members
who do not have computers, but that task is a large one if you have much
data, especially if you do not have a good genealogy program that will
index the printouts like a book.
I am not sure why you would want to try and transcribe your data into a
spreadsheet or a word processing program once you have it in GEDCOM
format inside a genealogy program. The time it would take to do so and
keep it current would be large, and what would you gain?
You can of course share all of your pedigree, all of your family group
sheets, and ancestral and descendancy charts and books with anyone by
making Acrobat Reader (pdf) files of those documents. That provides
the data to others electronically, and does not take the paper to do
so. I am not sure that all genealogy programs allow you to make pdf
files of your data but Legacy does- it is an option on the print preview
screen.
Gary Warner
SGGEE
F&RM Haddad wrote:
> I'm the one who had the near-miss with a corrupted database file that my
> program (yes, Legacy) had the ability to restore. And thank-you everyone for
> your suggestions and good wishes. This has made me wonder how everyone
> stores their genealogical info. Just on a dedicated genealogy program? Also
> in, a spreadsheet program? And/Or also in a Word Processing Program in
> Ahnen-tafel format? What about "hard copy"? I gave my maternal line data in
> chart form to a cousin as a b-day gift, and it was over 120 pages, 5
> generations per page. Many pages had only one or two names on them of
> course, but even so. Since then I've been able to add more material, and it
> would be signficantly bigger now.
>
> So in your opinion, what is the best way (what are the best ways) to store
> your information?
>
> And while on the topic - how do you transfer the information in electronic
> format to someone (say, overseas) who does not have a genealogical program
> on their computer, and may not have Microsoft Word? And I don't have Adobe
> except as a reader.
>
> Rose-Marie
>
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